“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.”

“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”

“I would just as soon die now, but I haven't done anything yet to be remembered by”

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” 

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”

“With Malice Towards None”

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

“And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour  of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”

“Gold is good in it's place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.”

“What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”